Thoose of you who have known me since before the days that ICANN was incorporated, and sicne the IFWP know that I have participated all along, and that I continue to particpate. Yet even I feel excluded from the accountability work. And that despite the fact I have voluntarily restricted myself to a small subset of the work (principally the goal of incorporating a human rights committment into the eventual ICANN bylaws). How am I excluded? By the volume and frequency of the expected interactions. As the director of a small ccTLD organisation, I have limited time and resources. Yet, at the moment, the CCWG work seems to demand more time and effort than even being a member of the Board of ICANN would! Accordingly, those who are paid to do this, have a distinct advantages, and their views, whether representative of consensus or not, naturally predominate. But it's all academic, since no matter what the consensus outcome, the Board reserves the right to reject it anyway.
Very few individuals participating and of those few many participate a lot.
From where I am sitting, industry is calling the shots. From the bottom-up. All the way.
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